Cue 500 comments griping about how people who invest massive effort and talent always ask to be paid for some reason.
I believe they should be paid, but the amount they want for this particular show seems extremely high. $7 dollars for 2 hours of a show that for the most part will be listened to once and then never touched again. Woo wee sign me up for that. I would pay say 15-25 cents per hour but no way would I pay $3.50 per hour. They deserve to get paid for their efforts, but we also deserve to pay a fair price for the content we get in return.
Okay, before I actually RTFA I thought this show might be every day of the week and would be at least two hours per episode considering most morning shows I like would be at least that long with all of the commercials cut out. Even if it was about 40 hours per month I don't think I would pay $7/month for something I would for the most part listen to once and never listen to again. But $7 for 2 hours of content? Give me a break, that is approaching the price of say a porn which at least I could get some fun out of and would watch more than once. Are there really people who would pay that much for 2 hours of throwaway content?
If it is going to cost that much I will just go back to turning on the radio. Oh yeah and doing it that way is free. I would be willing to pay for shows I really like but they will have to lower the price to something like 15-25 cents per hour before I would even consider it.
a disappearing BIOS password and configuration will raise some questions.
In the situation I was in at the offices around the university I would say 99% of the people using the computers would not have any clue that the BIOS password was missing (much less even know what the BIOS is). There was no checking going on seeing if the thousands of computers BIOS's had been reset either. I also mentioned that none of the machines (in offices) had their hardware locked down either (not even those stickers to know if someone had gone inside). All of the lab computers were locked down, but the computers I would see people wanting access to were the ones in the offices which were pretty insecure.
I am curious how it is at other places since the norm at two large universities seemed to be "lock down the lab computers" but leave the office computers hardware open. All of the sensitive information was accessed from the office computers too, so it would have been trivial to copy what you needed locally and then copy it off to a USB device.
So how many places actually lockdown the actual hardware of a computer that would prevent someone from reseting the BIOS password and if the password were to be reset how many places would even know? I am curious since I have no idea, but from my limited experience it seemed not to be common.
How do you boot Knoppix if you can't access the boot device selection without the BIOS password?
I meant if you knew the password or one was not set. I took your comment: "CDs aren't writable if the drive isn't a writer." to mean if they could boot up off of a CD and the drive was not writable that there would not be a way to copy the data off since you could not write to the CD.
As far as reseting the BIOS, how many places (besides really big corporations) actually lock down the cases? This is an honest question and I really have no idea how common it is. I have worked for two pretty large universities and all of the lab computers were usually locked down pretty well but most office computers did not have the cases locked up at all.
This guy wrote a program that does some basic and not-very-remarkable parsing of Word files on C: and copies whatever it finds to the iPod.
If all it does is look at the local hard disks then why even bother parsing the word files? It would be much more efficient to just copy all the word files and then use some kind of filtering program once you got home. Now if it were to scan a large network there might be an advantage to checking the files individually before copying the whole file since you might not have to read the whole file before skipping it but even still doing the parsing prior to copying to the iPod wouldn't be how I would go about it. A 60 GB iPod can hold a LOT of word documents and preprocessing them all seems like a waste in my opinion.
I had the same idea and if the actual hardware is not locked down then that would be a very easy way to get around local computer restrictions. If a person were to make sure to copy all the files they wanted to the local hard drive first, what would stop them from then booting up knoppix, plugging in the external disk and copying them over that way?
email is a lot more easy to monitor than copying files over the network, and is likely backed up too
He/she specifically said web-mail: "many Web e-mail services allow up to 10MB or so filesizes. Just send them to your Yahoo! or GMail account."
Now I know that they said send "to" and not "from" but you could just mail it to the same address you are sending it from.
It is MUCH harder to monitor web-mail (if it is allowed in the first place) than to monitor your companies internal e-mail and you also don't have a backup in the same form as e-mail backups. A person would have to be pretty dumb to not use an external e-mail system if they wanted to send files that they shouldn't be sending. I do agree that it is much easier to monitor internal e-mail than it is to monitor all network activity.
Most of the sites I have played on accept money through avenues such as paypal or my favorite being firepay which are pretty legit sites. To recieve funds from the gambling websites all I have needed to provide is my name and address to mail the check to, information anyone could find in a phone book. So I don't have to worry about the gambling websites mis-using my information or CC info. I have never had a problem and have been playing online for about 2 years, it is safe as long as you are careful where you go and what you use to play on the sites. I have played on a few gambling websites and my favorite is party poker with pokerrom.com being my second favorite.
a touch screen would keep changing tracks when you walked around. Not good.
I have an iPod Photo and I think the other iPods are similar as far as having a switch that disables all the inputs. I am pretty sure this new iPod would have a similar switch to disable the touchscreen. A touchscreen would most definitely not be useless, just different then the current way to control the iPod.
What I would be worried about is scratching the screen. I have a case for my iPod that is a solid enclosure with clear, hard plastic over the screen and a hole cut out where the buttons are. With the new touchscreen I am curious if you can have a similar protective cover over the screen, yet still be able to have the touchscreen functionality. One last comment is I would not recommend shoving an iPod into a pocket full of keys, coins etc. Buying a case is relatively cheap and a lot of the cases either come with clips or quick releases. Here is a picture of the model of case I have and I love it http://www.vajacases.com/images/mp3/apple/ipod_pho to_30gb/bap101i/main.jpg
"In a construction company, is a plumber smarter than a carpenter?"
Depends, if there's a leak on one of the pipes, who would you rather fix it? The carpenter or the plumber?
Just because the plumber has more knowledge about pipes than the carpenter does NOT mean that the plumber is smarter. The plumber very well might be smarter, but just because he can fix a leak better than the carpenter doesn't mean he actually is smarter. As the other guy mentioned:
To borrow from borrow from Robert Goren, "...they have complementary skills...".
So assuming the carpenter had better carpentry skills than the plumber and vice versa, to put the whole house together they need each others skills working together if they want the result to be better than if each tried to build a house alone.
Besides, everyone here CLAIMS to have their machines on all the time which in reality is bullshit.
One day in the far future they will all realize that their dicks did not grow because they had a multi-aeon uptime on the Trusy Ol' White Box.
There is a difference between having the machine powered on all the time and having a very long uptime. It is most definitely not bullshit that I have my main desktop on very nearly all the time. The only time I power it down is when I leave for a vacation that will be longer than one week, and that is maybe once a year.
1) Get wealthy people to give you their money when they die so you can invest it for when they return.
2) Pay someone to accidently leave the door to the freezer full of people open over the weekend.
3) PROFIT!!!
I know they aren't put in a freezer, it just added to the joke. Seriously though I wonder what would happen to the money if something catastrophic happened and the bodies were ruined.
My EXACT same thoughts. I have been using Opera for the last few years and I loooove everything about it. I would be very afraid if MS were to purchase Opera for fear that it will get neglected and/or bloated with useless features like a lot of MS products. I would prefer that it stay with a company dedicated to innovating their product and with a vision qouting directly from the Opera website:
"Opera's vision is to deliver the best Internet experience on any device."
I use both MS and non-MS OS's/software so I am not a MS hater. I actually think Windows XP Pro is a pretty good, stable OS. I also really like using Visual Studio for C/C++ development, it has its quirks but so does any software. I just would hate to see my beloved browser fall to pieces.
A very simple trick is to write your data at the back of the image.
This is something I have considered too using the JPG file format. A lot of software stops reading from the file once it hits the EOI (End of Image) marker, 0xFFD9, and would display the image perfectly. You really could hide information pretty easily from most people that way. You could also put it in the EXIF data if you wanted to. There are many other ways the file could be edited as well to hide data in it. If I wanted to communicate "secretly" I think a pretty decent way would be to put a couple hundred images on one of those sites like webshots.com or flickr.com and then say use say image 245 to hide the messages in. It would not add very much to the file size at all and since the data would not be stored locally on the hard drive if the computer was confiscated nothing really could be found directly on the computer as long as you never saved the images to the disk and were careful to clear the web cache.
Let's see data transfer and storage catch up with this development to consider it an alternative to HDTV instead of it's eventual replacement....
That is exactly what I was thinking as well. I thought I had a decent amount of storage but jeez even if it was all free I would only have enough space for recording about 20 seconds! It will be quite a long time I think before this would be feasable to use for mainstream recording with the current hardware limitations/prices.
Last time I looked at VS it was impossible to open two code windows on the screen at once and cut and paste code between them.
It must have been a while since you have looked at VS but doing just what you mention is definitely supported and easy to do. With the tabbed interface all you have to do is drag the tab to another area in the main window, non-tabbed I don't know how to do it. Do you complain often about things that you do absolutely no research on? Come on now at least make an attempt at verifying what you are complaining about is truly an issue.
One person with an MSCS didn't even know what a regular expression was.
That is because CS is about theory, NOT little easily learned things like RE's. Yes, that is suprising that they had never run across RE's before but I would bet they could pick them up and learn about them much faster than most people without a degree. I only have a BS in CS but I came into my current job about eight months ago with very little knowledge about specifics of anything (and little RE knowledge) and I have helped integrate RE searching into a product, learned how to trouble shoot and recover from errors reading/writing to DVD/CD discs, wrote a backend to a database application, added Intel's IPP to a product among many other things. Can people without any degree succeed? Of course they can. But if I was hiring and had to choose between a person with a BS/MS of CS and someone without I would go with the degree way, way more often than not. I would know they can learn.
Theoretically, any cheap drive used in a raid will experience less wear per gig of RAID data storage, since it is only storing a portion of the data.
That is not the case in RAID 1 where the data is mirrored. It may result in less reads per disk compared to a one disk system but the data is definately not portioned out across a mirrored disk RAID setup. I do agree that it's not a bad idea to use cheap disks ESPECIALLY if the data is mirrored or at least backed up regularly if using RAID 0. I wouldn't spend the extra money on these "special" HDD's.
Its highways are confusingly engineered with tolls everywhere.
You have never traveled by automobile in IL have you? The tolls here are horrible, especially close to Chicago. You pay everytime you get on and off the highways and also at somewhat random intervals. So if you leave to go visit your friend in the town down the highway from you you pay 4 tolls minimum for the round trip. When I go to visit my parents about 140 miles away I pay 7 tolls each way. Also, if you don't have an I-Pass (electronic RFID toll payment) you pay DOUBLE the amount I-Pass holders pay. I seriously hate the tolls in this state.
You could piss many Midwesterners or Southerner's off by including Texas as part of the Midwest! That is a Southern state my friend. I don't care since I was born in Texas but now live in Chicago but I still had to point out that it is not one of the 12 Midwestern states.
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Cue 500 comments griping about how people who invest massive effort and talent always ask to be paid for some reason.
I believe they should be paid, but the amount they want for this particular show seems extremely high. $7 dollars for 2 hours of a show that for the most part will be listened to once and then never touched again. Woo wee sign me up for that. I would pay say 15-25 cents per hour but no way would I pay $3.50 per hour. They deserve to get paid for their efforts, but we also deserve to pay a fair price for the content we get in return.
Okay, before I actually RTFA I thought this show might be every day of the week and would be at least two hours per episode considering most morning shows I like would be at least that long with all of the commercials cut out. Even if it was about 40 hours per month I don't think I would pay $7/month for something I would for the most part listen to once and never listen to again. But $7 for 2 hours of content? Give me a break, that is approaching the price of say a porn which at least I could get some fun out of and would watch more than once. Are there really people who would pay that much for 2 hours of throwaway content?
If it is going to cost that much I will just go back to turning on the radio. Oh yeah and doing it that way is free. I would be willing to pay for shows I really like but they will have to lower the price to something like 15-25 cents per hour before I would even consider it.
a disappearing BIOS password and configuration will raise some questions.
In the situation I was in at the offices around the university I would say 99% of the people using the computers would not have any clue that the BIOS password was missing (much less even know what the BIOS is). There was no checking going on seeing if the thousands of computers BIOS's had been reset either. I also mentioned that none of the machines (in offices) had their hardware locked down either (not even those stickers to know if someone had gone inside). All of the lab computers were locked down, but the computers I would see people wanting access to were the ones in the offices which were pretty insecure.
I am curious how it is at other places since the norm at two large universities seemed to be "lock down the lab computers" but leave the office computers hardware open. All of the sensitive information was accessed from the office computers too, so it would have been trivial to copy what you needed locally and then copy it off to a USB device.
So how many places actually lockdown the actual hardware of a computer that would prevent someone from reseting the BIOS password and if the password were to be reset how many places would even know? I am curious since I have no idea, but from my limited experience it seemed not to be common.
How do you boot Knoppix if you can't access the boot device selection without the BIOS password?
I meant if you knew the password or one was not set. I took your comment: "CDs aren't writable if the drive isn't a writer." to mean if they could boot up off of a CD and the drive was not writable that there would not be a way to copy the data off since you could not write to the CD.
As far as reseting the BIOS, how many places (besides really big corporations) actually lock down the cases? This is an honest question and I really have no idea how common it is. I have worked for two pretty large universities and all of the lab computers were usually locked down pretty well but most office computers did not have the cases locked up at all.
This guy wrote a program that does some basic and not-very-remarkable parsing of Word files on C: and copies whatever it finds to the iPod.
If all it does is look at the local hard disks then why even bother parsing the word files? It would be much more efficient to just copy all the word files and then use some kind of filtering program once you got home. Now if it were to scan a large network there might be an advantage to checking the files individually before copying the whole file since you might not have to read the whole file before skipping it but even still doing the parsing prior to copying to the iPod wouldn't be how I would go about it. A 60 GB iPod can hold a LOT of word documents and preprocessing them all seems like a waste in my opinion.
CDs aren't writable if the drive isn't a writer.
That doesn't stop you from booting up knoppix and then plugging in a USB device to then copy everything you want. Thats how I would do it.
why not just boot knoppix and coping that way.
I had the same idea and if the actual hardware is not locked down then that would be a very easy way to get around local computer restrictions. If a person were to make sure to copy all the files they wanted to the local hard drive first, what would stop them from then booting up knoppix, plugging in the external disk and copying them over that way?
email is a lot more easy to monitor than copying files over the network, and is likely backed up too
He/she specifically said web-mail: "many Web e-mail services allow up to 10MB or so filesizes. Just send them to your Yahoo! or GMail account."
Now I know that they said send "to" and not "from" but you could just mail it to the same address you are sending it from.
It is MUCH harder to monitor web-mail (if it is allowed in the first place) than to monitor your companies internal e-mail and you also don't have a backup in the same form as e-mail backups. A person would have to be pretty dumb to not use an external e-mail system if they wanted to send files that they shouldn't be sending. I do agree that it is much easier to monitor internal e-mail than it is to monitor all network activity.
The gamblers we call businessmen look with great disapproval on the businessmen we call gamblers.
--Ambrose Bierce
Offtopic, but I thought it was funny you quoted him when the same man is the source for the quote at the bottom of this Slashdot page for me:
birth, n: The first and direst of all disasters. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
Most of the sites I have played on accept money through avenues such as paypal or my favorite being firepay which are pretty legit sites. To recieve funds from the gambling websites all I have needed to provide is my name and address to mail the check to, information anyone could find in a phone book. So I don't have to worry about the gambling websites mis-using my information or CC info. I have never had a problem and have been playing online for about 2 years, it is safe as long as you are careful where you go and what you use to play on the sites. I have played on a few gambling websites and my favorite is party poker with pokerrom.com being my second favorite.
a touch screen would keep changing tracks when you walked around. Not good.
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I have an iPod Photo and I think the other iPods are similar as far as having a switch that disables all the inputs. I am pretty sure this new iPod would have a similar switch to disable the touchscreen. A touchscreen would most definitely not be useless, just different then the current way to control the iPod.
What I would be worried about is scratching the screen. I have a case for my iPod that is a solid enclosure with clear, hard plastic over the screen and a hole cut out where the buttons are. With the new touchscreen I am curious if you can have a similar protective cover over the screen, yet still be able to have the touchscreen functionality. One last comment is I would not recommend shoving an iPod into a pocket full of keys, coins etc. Buying a case is relatively cheap and a lot of the cases either come with clips or quick releases. Here is a picture of the model of case I have and I love it http://www.vajacases.com/images/mp3/apple/ipod_ph
"In a construction company, is a plumber smarter than a carpenter?"
Depends, if there's a leak on one of the pipes, who would you rather fix it? The carpenter or the plumber?
Just because the plumber has more knowledge about pipes than the carpenter does NOT mean that the plumber is smarter. The plumber very well might be smarter, but just because he can fix a leak better than the carpenter doesn't mean he actually is smarter. As the other guy mentioned:
To borrow from borrow from Robert Goren, "...they have complementary skills...".
So assuming the carpenter had better carpentry skills than the plumber and vice versa, to put the whole house together they need each others skills working together if they want the result to be better than if each tried to build a house alone.
Besides, everyone here CLAIMS to have their machines on all the time which in reality is bullshit.
One day in the far future they will all realize that their dicks did not grow because they had a multi-aeon uptime on the Trusy Ol' White Box.
There is a difference between having the machine powered on all the time and having a very long uptime. It is most definitely not bullshit that I have my main desktop on very nearly all the time. The only time I power it down is when I leave for a vacation that will be longer than one week, and that is maybe once a year.
So what are you the joke nazi now?
1) Get wealthy people to give you their money when they die so you can invest it for when they return.
2) Pay someone to accidently leave the door to the freezer full of people open over the weekend.
3) PROFIT!!!
I know they aren't put in a freezer, it just added to the joke.
Seriously though I wonder what would happen to the money if something catastrophic happened and the bodies were ruined.
NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
My EXACT same thoughts. I have been using Opera for the last few years and I loooove everything about it. I would be very afraid if MS were to purchase Opera for fear that it will get neglected and/or bloated with useless features like a lot of MS products. I would prefer that it stay with a company dedicated to innovating their product and with a vision qouting directly from the Opera website:
"Opera's vision is to deliver the best Internet experience on any device."
I use both MS and non-MS OS's/software so I am not a MS hater. I actually think Windows XP Pro is a pretty good, stable OS. I also really like using Visual Studio for C/C++ development, it has its quirks but so does any software. I just would hate to see my beloved browser fall to pieces.
I read that subject line as "What if you don't want to live". I was hoping I could get your 360 cheap/free. Damn!
Okay just kidding, I wouldn't want someone to die just so I could get a 360... unless I could pick ha
A very simple trick is to write your data at the back of the image.
This is something I have considered too using the JPG file format. A lot of software stops reading from the file once it hits the EOI (End of Image) marker, 0xFFD9, and would display the image perfectly. You really could hide information pretty easily from most people that way. You could also put it in the EXIF data if you wanted to. There are many other ways the file could be edited as well to hide data in it. If I wanted to communicate "secretly" I think a pretty decent way would be to put a couple hundred images on one of those sites like webshots.com or flickr.com and then say use say image 245 to hide the messages in. It would not add very much to the file size at all and since the data would not be stored locally on the hard drive if the computer was confiscated nothing really could be found directly on the computer as long as you never saved the images to the disk and were careful to clear the web cache.
Let's see data transfer and storage catch up with this development to consider it an alternative to HDTV instead of it's eventual replacement....
That is exactly what I was thinking as well. I thought I had a decent amount of storage but jeez even if it was all free I would only have enough space for recording about 20 seconds! It will be quite a long time I think before this would be feasable to use for mainstream recording with the current hardware limitations/prices.
Last time I looked at VS it was impossible to open two code windows on the screen at once and cut and paste code between them.
It must have been a while since you have looked at VS but doing just what you mention is definitely supported and easy to do. With the tabbed interface all you have to do is drag the tab to another area in the main window, non-tabbed I don't know how to do it. Do you complain often about things that you do absolutely no research on? Come on now at least make an attempt at verifying what you are complaining about is truly an issue.
One person with an MSCS didn't even know what a regular expression was.
That is because CS is about theory, NOT little easily learned things like RE's. Yes, that is suprising that they had never run across RE's before but I would bet they could pick them up and learn about them much faster than most people without a degree. I only have a BS in CS but I came into my current job about eight months ago with very little knowledge about specifics of anything (and little RE knowledge) and I have helped integrate RE searching into a product, learned how to trouble shoot and recover from errors reading/writing to DVD/CD discs, wrote a backend to a database application, added Intel's IPP to a product among many other things. Can people without any degree succeed? Of course they can. But if I was hiring and had to choose between a person with a BS/MS of CS and someone without I would go with the degree way, way more often than not. I would know they can learn.
You should talk to my friend Stephanie. She has exactly the opposite philosophy.
You gotta hook me up with her!
Theoretically, any cheap drive used in a raid will experience less wear per gig of RAID data storage, since it is only storing a portion of the data.
That is not the case in RAID 1 where the data is mirrored. It may result in less reads per disk compared to a one disk system but the data is definately not portioned out across a mirrored disk RAID setup. I do agree that it's not a bad idea to use cheap disks ESPECIALLY if the data is mirrored or at least backed up regularly if using RAID 0. I wouldn't spend the extra money on these "special" HDD's.
Its highways are confusingly engineered with tolls everywhere.
You have never traveled by automobile in IL have you? The tolls here are horrible, especially close to Chicago. You pay everytime you get on and off the highways and also at somewhat random intervals. So if you leave to go visit your friend in the town down the highway from you you pay 4 tolls minimum for the round trip. When I go to visit my parents about 140 miles away I pay 7 tolls each way. Also, if you don't have an I-Pass (electronic RFID toll payment) you pay DOUBLE the amount I-Pass holders pay. I seriously hate the tolls in this state.
or in the mid west (Missouri, Texas)
You could piss many Midwesterners or Southerner's off by including Texas as part of the Midwest! That is a Southern state my friend. I don't care since I was born in Texas but now live in Chicago but I still had to point out that it is not one of the 12 Midwestern states.